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'Except fair ladies! put in one of the girls. 'Of course. I'll except the women. But the men-' 'The what? I have not seen a man since I came here, except a dock-worker or two priests and fine gentlemen they are all and you don't call them men, surely? 'What on earth do they do, beside riding donkeys? 'Philosophise, they say. 'What's that?
Would he go, after handing the longshoreman over to the harshest patrolman in New York? or would it be a doctor who would remain behind in the flat with the tyrant, assuring Johnnie, as the latter sauntered out of the kitchen for the very last time, that no skill on earth could entirely mend the hurts which he had so bravely inflicted upon his groaning foster father? or would he set sail grandly from the Battery for some port at least a million miles away, his last view of the metropolis including in its foreground, along with a brass band and many dignitaries of the city, the kneeling shape of a wretched dock-worker who had repented of his meanness too late?
You must pardon me if I seem obscure; I cannot help looking at the question with a somewhat Alexandrian eye, and talking of the poor negro dock-worker as certain Alexandrian philosophers would have talked, of whom I shall have to speak hereafter.
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